Conception Quote by James D. Watson

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just…

— Konrad Lorenz

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a…

— James D. Watson

Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person.

— Richard P. Feynman

Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe.

— Marcello Truzzi

It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.

— Max Born

Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and…

— Hans Eysenck

A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.

— Joss Whedon

We are having wool pulled over our eyes if we let ourselves be convinced that scientists, taken as a group, are anything special in…

— Anthony Standen

“People confuse science and scientists. Science is great, but individual scientists are dangerous. They are human; they are marred by the biases humans have.…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Scientists are rarely to be counted among the fun people. Awkward at parties, shy with strangers, deficient in irony - they have had no…

— Fran Lebowitz

Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the…

— James P. Hogan

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

— Richard P. Feynman